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- Artifact classification
- Students will use pictures of artifacts or objects from a teaching kit to classify artifacts and answer questions about the lifeways of a group of historic Native Americans.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
- Magnetic magic
- Students will explore and experiment with a magnet's mysterious invisible strength by rotating through five hands-on centers.
- Author: Thelma Pike
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
- Minerals and math
- Students will develop ways to create self-devised rules for classifying minerals and relate this information to scientific ways of classifying minerals according to their characteristics. They will then compile this information into a chart and convert parts of the chart into a line or bar graph.
- Author: Courtney Richards
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
- Nutrition and the media: Cereal box consumerism
- This lesson will offer your students the opportunity to explore nutrition and how the media impacts our consumer decisions. Students will design a cereal box and read about how the use of color, slogans, and prizes impacts buyers. This lesson plan is easily adapted for exceptional children and can be expanded and/or adapted to suit your students' needs.
- Author: Gloria Simmons
- Format: lesson plan (grades 2–4)
- Nutritional Value Unit Integrated with Microsoft Works
- This unit is an example of how to integrate technology into the curriculum to alleviate teaching it in isolation. Students will use Microsoft Works to compare and analyze nutritional values from nonperishable food items.
- Author: Gretchen Parrish
- Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5)
- Spin Away
- Children will work in groups using spinners with 4 colors to make predictions about probability, gather and record data, and make conclusions about outcome.
- Author: Gloria Wilson
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
- Taking a Stride in Graphing
- "Taking it in Stride" provides hands-on activities for students to use real-life experiences and apply them to graphing.
- Author: Sandy Brooks
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
- Where were you born...A graphing lesson
- Students will gather data and graph the results. Lake Norman Elementary's student population has a wide range of native states. Many of the students were born in states other than North Carolina. This activity allows the students to survey each class to see what states are represented in our school. After the survey results have been tallied, students will use the data to create different types of graphs. The class will then compare the graphs and will decide which type of graph represents the information most clearly.
- Author: Erin Bradfeldt, Joan Milliken and Kathy Beck
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–4)
- Alphabet soup
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students construct box-and-whisker plots. They use them to identify the mean, mode, median, and range of the data set.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
- Bell curve
- Students construct two bell curves using two different yet related objects.
- Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Bias sampling
- In this Science NetLinks lesson, students take a poll to gather information about how much time students spend on homework. Students then explore ways that data can be manipulated and discover that sometimes a representation of a group does not provide an accurate picture of the whole group.
- Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- The bread basket
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students conduct a survey and create bar graphs. They compare bar graphs in different orientations and then find the mode of a set of data based on a food court theme.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Categorical data
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students formulate and refine questions that can be addressed with categorical data.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Choosing the best option
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, student groups use data collected in the previous lesson to select a plan for a trip to Disneyland or Disney World.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Class attributes
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students create their own classroom survey or use the reproducible classroom Survey handout to study the class and describe the set (class) in fractional parts.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Classroom Paper
- Students participate in activities in which they investigate the data in connection with recyclable materials and develop plans to help the environment.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–5)
- The clucking chicken
- In this lesson, students choose meals from a sample menu, construct a box plot and use the data to find the mean, mode, median, and range of the data set.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5)
- Comparing averages
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students collect data based on the number of letters in their first and last names and create a box and whisker plot to compare mean, median and mode of the data set.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Comparing categorical and numerical data
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students compare and contrast categorical and numerical data, based upon their work in the earlier parts of the unit.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- The creamery
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students estimate, then determine, the number of ice cream sundae combinations that can be made with two topping possibilities and a number of ice cream flavors.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)